
AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and generative AI across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult to identify. A 2026 analysis found that nearly 40% of…

AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.

Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for ent…

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequen…

A bookseller hid an AirTag inside a rare book and let it go with a bulk order. The tracker travelled across the United States and stopped at a warehouse in Las Vegas owned by Amazon. Emanuel Maiberg reported the result for 404 Media on Monday. Booksell…

China could become almost self-sufficient in high-end AI accelerators in 2026 as Chinese IHVs led by Huawei expected to supply 90% of AI processors used domestically.
A U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines’ treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.
A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.

404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.

A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 …